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12 Android Gestures You Might Not Know About

Android is a powerful mobile operating system that provides a lot more customization options than its competitors (namely the iPhone). Although the ins and outs of a handset can vary between phone makers, these Android shortcuts should work no matter what model of phone you’re using. Here are 12 gestures you can use on Android…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 9

Microsoft Wants Your Hands to Join You in VR Worlds

Your job has the potential to be a lot cooler once everyone has a pair of VR goggles strapped to their face—unless Microsoft has something to say about it. The company is working towards bringing hand motions and gestures into virtual worlds, with the goal of having you press buttons and pull levers just like…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 27

How to Add Customized Gesture Controls to Your Android Phone

Get yourself an Android phone or tablet and you can hack it to work in pretty much whatever way you want—and that extends to input as well. All In One Gestures is one of several apps on the Google Play Store that let you create customized gestures for controlling your apps and the OS itself.…

Gadgets David Nield May 18

The Moto X Just Got a Fun New Gesture That Turns on the Flashlight

An Android 5.1 update is rolling out to the 2014 Moto X. It adds a new gesture that turns the the flashlight on and off. To do it, simply “chop twice.” That sounds weird, but makes more sense when you look at this GIF: Motorola’s software gestures are probably the coolest features on one of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 8

You Set this Analog Watch With Swipes, Not Dials

If you needed any further proof that buttons, dials, and knobs are slowly being completely replaced by touch-sensitive alternatives, Rado’s new HyperChrome Touch Dual Timer watch is Exhibit A. Its old-school analog display looks traditional enough, but finger gestures have replaced dials when it comes to setting the time. Swiping up and down along the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 3

Every Gestural Interface Should Be This Responsive and Snappy

Working alongside a company called zSpace, makers of interactive holographic displays, researchers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have built a high-speed gesture recognition system that instantly responds to hand and finger movements. Which in turn enhances the immersiveness of these interactive displays. Practicality still remains an issue, given the system relies on a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 22

Touch-Sensitive Buttons Will Let New TV Remotes Recognize Gestures

There’s all kinds of fancy touchscreen remotes available today, but when you’re absent-mindedly watching TV, physical buttons mean you don’t have to constantly look down to change the channel. That’s not to say that touchscreen capabilities like gestures aren’t handy, which is why Philips has developed a new kind of remote technology called RevoTouch that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 19

iOS 7 Is Secretly Baby-Proof

Regardless of what you think of its icons, iOS 7 is a big design shift for Apple, and it’s here to stay. When the new OS finally hits consumer phones everywhere, it might be a little surprise for some, but there’s one demographic it’s really going to flummox: babies. The clip pretty much speaks for…

Tech News Eric Limer Jul 6

Finally A Chance To Bend The Weather To Your Will

It always rains the day you’re moving or gets really icy when you have a lot of driving ahead of you. Murphy’s Law definitely applies. If you could control the weather things would be much easier, and Design I/O wants you to feel like you can. Their installation allows participants to make it rain, produce…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Jun 30

One of the Most Underrated Features of iOS 7

In previous versions of iOS, you had to slide to unlock in one very specific location. Now? Oh man. You can slide to unlock here: or here… even here… but surely not… here? Okay what about… here? Yes. As long as your gesture is vaguely left-to-right, you can unlock from anywhere on the display. It…

Tech News Michael Hession Jun 12

Your Home’s Wi-Fi Network Could One Day Replace Your Kinect

Gesture recognition systems like the Kinect, or the upcoming Leap Motion, rely on special hardware and require you to be in a specific place to detect your motions. A limitation that researchers at the University of Washington have all but eliminated by instead using the Wi-Fi network in your home to recognize gestures. Unlike the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 5

You Could Control Google Glass With a Wink

When was the last time you winked? When was the last time you winked and didn’t immediately regret it? It’s probably been a while, but Google’s aiming making winking cool again(?), by hard-coding some 😉 functionality right into Glass. The code was dug up by Redditor fodawim, who found some variables with variations on the…

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 22

This Secret Google Maps Gesture Is Totally Brilliant

So this is great. Google might have the smartest new gesture we’ve seen in a while: a smart, simple way to zoom in and out with one hand. Just double tap the screen with your thumb—anywhere on the screen is fine—and on the second tap, hold your finger down. Now slide your finger up and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 1

Intelligent Keyboard-Wide Touchpad Is Smart Enough To Ignore Your Palms

With gesture controls becoming more common in software and apps, it makes sense to maximize the size of a laptop’s touchpad to facilitate more than just a couple of fingers. So researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed the Longpad, an oversized touchpad that’s as wide as a keyboard and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 6

Knuckle and Fingernail Gestures Could Be Coming Soon to a Touchscreen Near You

For the moment, your arsenal of touchscreen gestures is effectively limited by the number of fingers you can use. a ten-finger gesture isn’t going to be particularly helpful for most of us. New tech that can tell the difference between fingertips, knuckles, and fingernails however, could throw some more variables into the mix. A trio…

Tech News Eric Limer Nov 18

Could a Pair Of Kinect Sensors Replace Your Mouse?

When you think about it, pushing a mouse across a table or poking a flat screen with your finger is a pretty limited way to interact with a computer. After all, our hands are capable of far more intricate motions, which a company called 3Gear Systems hopes to translate into complex gestures that could revolutionize…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 4

Mind-Blowing Disney Sensor Tech Brings Gesture Based Computing To Everyday Objects

Disney Research (which presumably has lots of mice) created a new sensing system called Touché that can sense a wide variety of human hand and body interactions, not just touch screens, but in all sorts of objects—even liquids. It’s pretty amazing. Most capacitive sensing (think: your smartphone or trackpad) only operates on one frequency. Touché…

Tech News Mat Honan May 6

iOS Doesn’t Need More Stupid Gestures

How many gestures can Apple implement in iOS? Apparently not enough! These new gestures, detailed in a recent patent may end up in your iPad or iPhone in the future. Seriously Apple—NO. The first patented gesture is “Swipe and Hold,” designed to allow users to navigate faster through a series of photos, instead of having…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 10

Pantech’s Gesture Recognizing Vega LTE Will Do More Than Smile When You Wave At It

Pantech isn’t known for their cutting edge phones ’round these parts, but that will soon change with their upcoming Vega LTE line that recognizes touchless gestures using its front facing camera, like a miniature version of Microsoft’s Kinect. The Android based handsets employ eyeSight‘s gesture recognition technology, which is a software-only solution that works with…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 1

You Are About to Start Shopping with Gestures Thanks to Kinect

It’s about time someone did something cool with Kinect that wasn’t an art project or a glorified Dance Dance Revolution. A new Mastercard prototype makes it scary easy to buy stuff off your TV with the flick of an arm. If you’re prepared to swipe, snap, and gesture your way into colossal credit card debt,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 15

gestures

12 Android Gestures You Might Not Know About

Microsoft Wants Your Hands to Join You in VR Worlds

How to Add Customized Gesture Controls to Your Android Phone

The Moto X Just Got a Fun New Gesture That Turns on the Flashlight

You Set this Analog Watch With Swipes, Not Dials

Every Gestural Interface Should Be This Responsive and Snappy

Touch-Sensitive Buttons Will Let New TV Remotes Recognize Gestures

iOS 7 Is Secretly Baby-Proof

Finally A Chance To Bend The Weather To Your Will

One of the Most Underrated Features of iOS 7

Your Home’s Wi-Fi Network Could One Day Replace Your Kinect

You Could Control Google Glass With a Wink

This Secret Google Maps Gesture Is Totally Brilliant

Intelligent Keyboard-Wide Touchpad Is Smart Enough To Ignore Your Palms

Knuckle and Fingernail Gestures Could Be Coming Soon to a Touchscreen Near You

Could a Pair Of Kinect Sensors Replace Your Mouse?

Mind-Blowing Disney Sensor Tech Brings Gesture Based Computing To Everyday Objects

iOS Doesn’t Need More Stupid Gestures

Pantech’s Gesture Recognizing Vega LTE Will Do More Than Smile When You Wave At It

You Are About to Start Shopping with Gestures Thanks to Kinect

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